Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core

[Arthur]

Yeah, uhm, not entirely. But if you want to believe this just proved the christian religion is the real one, go ahead.

"There is technically enough water on the planet for the Noah's ark story"
"See, this proves it was real!!!"
"So how did it get 700km under the earth's crust?"
"God works in mysterious ways..."

Such an argument, were it to be raised by religionists, would be bogus, nonsense, idiotic and irrational. Obviously.

 

[Hamster]

Yeah, uhm, not entirely. But if you want to believe this just proved the christian religion is the real one, go ahead.

"There is technically enough water on the planet for the Noah's ark story"
"See, this proves it was real!!!"
"So how did it get 700km under the earth's crust?"
"God works in mysterious ways..."

A silly rock which water can be squeezed out of is not gonna change my beliefs one bit.

And it shouldn't worry you that much either. I'm sure anything the "nutcases" come up with the other "nutcases" will be able to prove wrong.

 

[hellfire]

Actually it's where this guy sleeps, until the day of the Awakening! He eats Godzillas for breakfast.

Helen Zilla?

 

[Solarion]

That water must be damned hot. 100 kilometers down I heard the temperature is around 200+ deg.celc.

 

[Dr.G]

That water must be damned hot. 100 kilometers down I heard the temperature is around 200+ deg.celc.

The average geothermal gradient is around 1 degree celsius every 30 meters. But largely depends on where it is that you're going down

 

[Arthur]

I had to swot up about ringwoodite. Never heard it before, so it seemed a bit dicey. But it's genuine. Named for an Ozzie called Ringwood.

Occurs up to approx 660km from surface, and also found in some meteorites.

 

[Dr.G]

I had to swot up about ringwoodite. Never heard it before, so it seemed a bit dicey. But it's genuine. Named for an Ozzie called Ringwood.

Occurs up to approx 660km from surface, and also found in some meteorites.

Haha, yeah ! Some of the mineral names are quite ridiculous; Cummingtonite, Pigeonite, Labradorite the list just goes on

 

[LazyLion]

It would indeed provide fodder for the Biblical Great Deluge account.... Genesis actually describes the "fountains of the deep"....

"11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened."


But this is not new... it has been claimed by scientists before. But I heard that it was not literal oceans, just a large amount of water trapped in rock.

Let me see if I can find one of the older news articles....

Edit: Here you go.,....

Huge Underground "Ocean" Found Beneath Asia....
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070227-ocean-asia.html

 

[LazyLion]

Actually it's where this guy sleeps, until the day of the Awakening! He eats Godzillas for breakfast.

Would love to see that!

 

[boxerulez]

Actually it's where this guy sleeps, until the day of the Awakening! He eats Godzillas for breakfast.

Cathulu

 

[boxerulez]

Cathulu

Actually... I bet the Japanese will go ape**** for this guys.... giant octopus monster orgy ensues.

 

[Solarion]

Actually it's where this guy sleeps, until the day of the Awakening! He eats Godzillas for breakfast.

Cthulu vs Doomsday. I got tickets, you bring the beer.

 

[Picard]

As soon as a creature like Doomsday think he needs so many horns on his face ... his credibility or my faith in his ability to beat Superman diminishes quite rapidly.